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Digital Transformation Hub

The infrastructure industry is at the start of a digital revolution that will have as profound an impact on how it works as the industrial revolution over 200 years ago. Digital infrastructure, from BIM to robotics and things we don’t even know about yet, will open new horizons for clients, designers, contractors and asset managers.

The new Infrastructure Intelligence Digital Infrastructure Hub, provided in association with Mott MacDonald, is a repository for new information on digital developments. It is a place anyone can come to find out about and share new ideas and thinking to keep pace with and contribute to our changing world. We hope you find it interesting and useful. Please take a look and get involved.

Jon Masters

A new carbon calculator is being launched later this month – the first to measure the capital and operational carbon footprints of BIM designed assets, writes Mott MacDonald sustainability leader Davide StronatiRead more

A team at Cambridge University is applying advanced machine learning to build BIM models, but needs help from national infrastructure agencies to realise the technique's vast potential, says Viorica PatrauceanRead more

Denise Chevin

Habitat Regulations can present one of the biggest challenges for an infrastructure planning application. Sheridan Treger and Paul Grace of law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner explain the lessons to be learned for promoters of major schemes.Read more

Brian Collins

UCL’s Professor Brian Collins is eager to start research work on combining knowledge from all of UK infrastructure to universally improve performance and economy of the country’s roads, rail, water and energy supplies.Read more

Jackie Whitelaw

SimCity is becoming reality as dynamic simulation models allow cities to adapt their masterplans as political and social needs change and to trial what if’s to see the potential effects of future trends, says Elisabete Silva.Read more

Jackie Whitelaw

The Carphone Warehouse problems with data security at the weekend highlight the vulnerability of digital data including that of infrastructure. Atkins’ Andrew Cooke has some ideas for protection.Read more

Tiny Hansen

Twenty of the UK’s transport leaders gathered for a frank and vigorous discussion on the impacts of digital on the transport and infrastructure sectors earlier this month as part of the Global Infrastructure Initiative (GII). McKinsey's Tony Hansen assesses to outcome.Read more

Mike Turpin

The utilities sector has been slow to catch on to BIM but through projects like National Grid’s Humber Estuary gas pipeline replacement scheme it is quickly recognising the benefits. Capita’s Mike Turpin explains.Read more

Tom van Vuren

Behavioural models have been honed over the decades, but evangelists say big data visualisations will render them obsolete. In fact, the greatest opportunities lie in a marriage of the two, says Tom van Vuren.Read more

John Horgan

Digital development is at the root of everything engineers and construction professionals do now. We have to be at the heart of setting the future agenda and shaping the UK's role in the digital world, says AECOM’s John Horgan.Read more

Andrew Wheen

4G mobile broadband and cloud services require a lot of power. How can the power demand and its associated carbon demand be reduced? Andrew Wheen and Dave Tanner of Mott MacDonald offer some ideas.Read more

A new carbon calculator is being launched later this month – the first to measure the capital and operational carbon footprints of BIM designed assets, writes Mott MacDonald sustainability leader Davide StronatiRead more

A team at Cambridge University is applying advanced machine learning to build BIM models, but needs help from national infrastructure agencies to realise the technique's vast potential, says Viorica PatrauceanRead more

September saw North America’s first smart cities week. As mayors and city leaders from across the US descended on Washington to discuss innovations in city infrastructure development, Bechtel's Walker Kimball explains the implications for cities everywhere.Read more

The Scottish Government has set the construction industry in Scotland the challenge of adopting BIM level 2 by April 2017, one year after a similar deadline in England. AECOM's David Philp is leading the new Scottish BIM Delivery Group, set up to support this objective. He explains the challenge ahead.Read more

Recent Edge Commission Report “Collaboration for Change” presents the industry’s future talent with “direct challenge” to lead from the front and create professions capable of creating sustainable future.Read more

Increasing demand for rail travel is putting pressure on the capacity of the UK's transport hubs. Royal HaskoningDHV's Samir el Gamal explains how its new work with Merseyrail will help to boost the passenger experience.Read more

Flooding incidents due to climate change are hitting the nation’s asset base with increasing frequency and severity. Digital technology has a key part to play in building resilience, says Mott MacDonald's Sun Yan Evans.Read more

London’ £15bn Crossrail project reaches a milestone in May as civils contractors start to hand over tunnels and stations to mechanical and electrical fit-out and systems crews. Antony Oliver report.Read more

The Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel could be a showcase for low carbon energy production. David Fowler finds out about tidal, marine and nuclear plans and starts his report with..... ...an update on Hinkly PointRead more